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What I Wish I’d Known Before Starting My Business (FS016)

Some of our favorite indie entrepreneurs share their most important mistakes and lessons learned.

Flailing around, blindly trying this and that, praying and hoping for some traction.

That’s how I started my first businesses as a solo entrepreneur. That’s how many of us do it.

If you’d like to save yourself years of trial and error, listen carefully to this episode. We each share our answers to the question: what do you wish you would have known before you got started?

Through Caleb’s story you hear about going too deep too quick. Through Corbett’s story you learn his product/audience tip. From my story you hear about b*ttholes (and, weirdly, it ends up being a really important lesson… Corbett’s favorite part, in fact).

And we pepper the responses from some of our favorite solo entrepreneurs throughout to add a bit more flavor.

Alan Watts on Buddhism on passions – “I promise to abstain from exploiting my passions.” Makes me think of my internet douchebaggery… wherein I try to ‘hack’ a passion to ‘turn’ a buck and ‘jack’ a profit.

The Focus Factor™ – “I recently finished a project. I worked hard on it. I’m proud of myself and my team. But the most important thing about it was surprising. Watch the video and let me explain.”

Johnny Rzeznik – I couldn’t pick just one image. It’s all too great. More “z” in his name than you thought, right? And here’s the critically acclaimed music video from their chart-topping, heart-throbbing hit Iris. (how dizzy do you think he is spinning around that room like that?)

The Top 10 Mistakes in Online Business

Every week we talk with entrepreneurs. We talk about what’s working and what isn’t. We talk about successes and failures. We spend time with complete newbies, seasoned veterans, and everything in between.

One topic that comes up over and over again with both groups is mistakes made in starting businesses. Newbies love to learn about mistakes so they can avoid them. Veterans love to talk about what they wish they had known when starting out.

These conversations have been fascinating, so we compiled a list of the 10 mistakes we hear most often into a nifty lil' guide.

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